Gymnastics, Star Wars and other life-saving knowledge

York just turned 14 a couple of weeks ago. He’s is physically unable to smile for the camera so I figured I should spare you the ugly pictures of York scowling. I did manage to snap one decent picture of York with my camera phone over Christmas while he was geeking out with my Mom and showing her his new Sounds of Star Wars book. Yes, it’s a bad quality photo but he is actually smiling. Not with teeth or anything, but I’ll take what I can get (so glad I dropped all that money on braces).

York has such a strange and scientific mind. He doesn’t try to be funny, he just is. Really we laugh a lot because he’s weird. Last Saturday we were driving around and York made this announcement:

“The three most valuable skills to have if you were trying to defend yourself and your house would be Kung Fu, gymnastics and breakdancing.”

OoohKaaaay.

Not marksmanship or weaponry skills. Breakdancing.

“Because you could spin on your head while you kick people,” he continued.

He may be 5’8, wear size 11 shoes, and have to shave from time to time, but he is definitely still a little kid.

He's as tall as me now! That's a nice picture of York and your mom, who seems to always be your number one blog commenter, even though you constantly talk about her. She cracks me up and I like reading her rebuttals. Sometimes I can't decide which one of you is the most humorous.

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My name is Hildie. I'm smart, I'm sassy, I'm sarcastic. Sometimes I'm nice, too. I'm a mom of six and wife of one.

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Mormon Glossary

Since I'm Mormon and church stuff comes up frequently, I thought I would provide a little glossary for terms you may not know:
First of all church is three hours long on Sunday. Whew! It's divided into three meetings:

Sacrament Meeting-the main church meeting, like Mass. The speakers are almost always members of the congregation. Anyone over the age of 12 can be asked to speak.

Sunday School-divided up by age (adults all go together) about 45 min long.

Relief Society-women's meeting, about 45 min.(the kids go to Primary, Men go to Priesthood meeting, teenage girls go to Young Womens). I'm the President of this group of women.

Celestial Kingdom-Heaven

Bishop-the leader of the congregation

Visiting teachers-all Mormon women are given a partner and assigned 2-4 women that they visit, call, give baked goods to every month.

Ward-the local congregation. It's all arranged geographically, so where you live determines where (and when) you go to church.